Longevity Expert Reveals The Science That Could Add Decades To Your Lifespan | Peter Diamandis

Join me for a mind-expanding conversation with visionary entrepreneur Peter Diamandis about his new book "The Longevity Guidebook." Peter shares groundbreaking insights on extending human lifespan, reveals the science behind aging reversal, and explains why mindset is the critical first step to living longer. From his personal 75-supplement daily routine to the future of AI-powered health optimization, Peter outlines practical steps anyone can take today to add decades of healthy living. Get ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about aging and discover why the next 15 years could revolutionize human longevity. Pre-order The Longevity GuidebookIn this episode you will learn:Why science predicts we'll reach "longevity escape velocity" by 2030-2035, potentially extending life indefinitelyHow your mindset and belief about your potential lifespan directly impacts your longevityThe "sequence secret" for eating that can boost your body's natural GLP-1 levels by 38% without medicationWhy muscle mass is one of the strongest predictors of longevity and how to preserve it as you ageHow advanced imaging and AI diagnostics can detect diseases years before symptoms appearFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1704For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Dr. Daniel Amen – greatness.lnk.to/1243SCAndrew Huberman – greatness.lnk.to/1455SCGlucose Goddess – greatness.lnk.to/1575SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  Hey guys, Lewis Howes here and I'm so grateful for you today for coming and taking a look at the School of Greatness episode. We've got the inspiring Peter Diamandis. He is revealing his secrets to not only living longer, but also living healthier. You're going to learn some incredible strategies on how to optimize your health now, but also some crazy things that are happening in science, research, that if you can really optimize in the next five to 10 years, you may be able to extend your life decades if you can do a few of these things over the next five to 10 years. He also shares how to increase

• 0:38Lewis Howes?

  your natural levels of GLP-1 by up to 38% just in the way you eat your foods. It's extremely powerful. This man takes 75 supplements. He is doing all the rituals and routines to try to increase his health and his lifespan. And I don't want you to get overwhelmed by all the things he's talking about. He does a ton of research on all of this stuff. I want you to find one or two things that you can implement today to feel better, to live a happier, healthier life. And he really dives into something that most of these experts don't cover. Of course, a lot of people cover environment. They cover exercise, cutting

• 1:19Lewis Howes?

  out sugar, what foods to eat, how to sleep. But there's something about the mindset of believing you are worthy of living a healthy and long life that I don't hear anyone else talking about. And we dive into this towards around the middle of this interview, and I think it's the most important thing to listen to. So make sure to click the follow button on Apple Podcasts or Spotify right now, wherever you're listening to this. If this is your first time coming and someone recommended this to you, send them a text, send them a message, give them a call, tell them you appreciate them for thinking about you. And I want you to think about one person in your life who could use this information. It's

• 2:02Lewis Howes?

  completely free. Send them a link over from Apple Podcasts or Spotify, text it to them and say, hey, I'd love for us to go over this together and tell me what you thought about this episode with Lewis Howes and Peter Diamandis on The School of Greatness.

• 2:21Lewis Howes?

  Welcome back everyone at the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guest. We have the inspiring Peter Diamandis in the house. Good to see you, my friend.

• 2:27Peter Diamandis?

  Good to see you, brother.

• 2:28Lewis Howes?

  Very excited. You've written a new book called The Longevity Guidebook. How to slow, stop, and reverse aging and not die from something stupid. And that part at the end is one of the most important things. As I continue my journey of trying to compete in sports at a high level, the biggest thing is preventing injury.

• 2:48Peter Diamandis?

  Yes.

• 2:49Lewis Howes?

  Because in order to play the game at a high level, you need to be healthy. And I think that's related to life as well. If in order to play the game of life at a high level, we need to stay healthy. There's a few things in your book that have really stood out to me that I got to dive into. And I'm sure we'll talk about many other things. But I think a lot of people, as they age, their bodies shut down. So it's like when they're in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, they don't have the energy or the capacity to live a rich and full life. And what do you think are the main factors today that are causing people to live longer but not have the vitality to enjoy their length of their life?

• 3:30Peter Diamandis?

  My goal for anybody watching us here is that they walk away with immediately useful things they can do to maintain that vitality and energy. And that they are motivated more than ever before to take care of themselves because something amazing is coming down the pipe in terms of science right now. And so I wanted to lay that out there. My mission in writing this book is to get the knowledge out there. You know, Tony Robbins and I wrote a book, 700 pages, that was an extraordinary book. It was number one in the New York Times for, I think, like six weeks. But it's hard for people to consume a 700-page book. And I've made this longevity guidebook

• 4:14Peter Diamandis?

  as something that is consumable and it's a manual. It's a how-to. It's like, okay, I gotta remind myself I'm asleep, or diet, or exercise, or mindset. And I've laid it out in that way, where it's something you pick up and utilize.

• 4:30Peter Diamandis?

  It's, you know, what's different today, all right? So I think that we're living in a time where AI is going to make a massive difference. And a whole slew of biotechnology capabilities like single cell sequencing, CRISPR, gene therapies, all these exotic things you hear about are technologies that are going to become available to us in a decade ahead. One of my mentors and dear friends, Ray Kurzweil, right? Who wrote The Singularity is Near, Singularity is Near. He proposed a concept years ago called longevity escape velocity.

• 5:06Lewis Howes?

  What's that?

• 5:07Peter Diamandis?

  And so longevity escape velocity is the idea that today, for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for about a quarter to a third of a year. But there's going to be a point that for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for more than a year.

• 5:22Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 5:23Peter Diamandis?

  And, you know, the question is, when is that going to happen? And so Ray's prediction, and if you Google Ray's predictions, it's like he's got an 86% accuracy rate, which is pretty extraordinary.

• 5:34Lewis Howes?

  On all of his predictions.

• 5:35Peter Diamandis?

  On all of his predictions. Like when we're going to have AI, when we're going to have, you know, these robots, we're going to have nanotechnology. His prediction on longevity escape velocity is by the end of the year 2030.

• 5:47Lewis Howes?

  That's where we're supposed to reach this?

• 5:49Peter Diamandis?

  This, that if you're in reasonably good shape and you have reasonable affluence, not like rich, reasonable abilities, that you'll reach this longevity escape velocity. So I speak to all the scientists I know about this and folks like George Church and David Sinclair at Harvard Medical School. When I query them about this, their answer is by the mid 2030s. So, but here's the point, right? It's not, you know, it's not 50 years from now or 30 years from now. It's a decade. It's the next 15 years. So our job between now and then is to keep ourselves in reasonably good health, and we'll talk about that, and not die from something stupid.

• 6:29Lewis Howes?

  Yes. I mean, what are the main factors that are causing us to die younger? It seems like, I saw a stat or a study that the current life expectancy in the US in 2024 is 79.25 years.

• 6:43Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 6:44Lewis Howes?

  And that's a 0.18 increase from 2023 from macro trends.

• 6:48Peter Diamandis?

  And we had dipped during COVID.

• 6:50Lewis Howes?

  We dipped.

• 6:51Peter Diamandis?

  Obviously, and now we're coming back up.

• 6:52Lewis Howes?

  But it's not that much still.

• 6:54Peter Diamandis?

  It isn't. It isn't. And it's measuring everybody.

• 6:59Peter Diamandis?

  Versus people who are focused on taking care of themselves. Right, one of the biggest issues is we're killing ourselves by what we eat. I mean, we can dive into diet. It's, you know, the number one thing is people's overconsumption of sugar.

• 7:16Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 7:16Peter Diamandis?

  The human body never evolved to eat as much sugar as we do. It was not something that was plentiful. You have to remember, our biology evolved a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand years ago in the savannas of Africa. And we haven't changed our biology over the last two hundred thousand years. And so you have to remember, what was life like back then? Well, we were hunters and foragers. We fasted because we didn't have access to food. We didn't have sugar, we had some fruit in our diet. But today, we're eating like a hundred kilograms of sugar a year. And a hundred years ago was like two kilograms a year. And before that, it was even less than that refined sugar.

• 7:58Peter Diamandis?

  And it is a cardiovascular inflammatory. It's a neurocognitive inflammatory. And it is dangerous for our health. Now, I'm not saying don't eat any sugar, but it's like, just starting with don't. And I had this argument with Elon all the time. It's like, he jokes, I eat donuts every morning. He said, "Don't eat donuts. When you're sixty, you're gonna regret that."

• 8:21Lewis Howes?

  Hmm, if someone eliminated sugar from their diet.

• 8:24Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 8:25Lewis Howes?

  Or ninety-five percent of it, let's say.

• 8:29Lewis Howes?

  How much longer do you think they could live without doing something stupid?

• 8:32Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 8:33Lewis Howes?

  Do you think it can extend your life if you eliminate sugar?

• 8:36Peter Diamandis?

  I think it can extend your health. So let's begin by talking about two things, lifespan and health span. All right, now, there's a challenge here because while we're living longer, we're living, let's round up to eighty, right? Most people are living the last twenty years of their life in some level of physical pain.

• 8:58Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 8:59Peter Diamandis?

  Cognitive loss, cardiovascular loss, inflammation, all these things. So their health span, they're healthy up until, you know, sixty. And then it's a decrease from there. And you have to realize that You're trading these things all the time. And so if you want to have, I mean, my goal for myself and for those I love is to live a life where I've got the vitality, the energy, the cognition, looking good, feeling good, moving well, you know, from now through 100. And then during these next, I'm 63 today, right? Uh, over these next 37 years, we're gonna have so many breakthroughs coming, right? It does, science doesn't stand still.

• 9:43Peter Diamandis?

  We forget that it's moving at this exponential speed. And my job is to keep myself in the best health I can, intercept the breakthroughs that are coming, that will give you the next decade, the next decade.

• 9:55Lewis Howes?

  How much do you lean into on the spiritual side of your, your health and life? Because there's so much science and AI and tech and biohacking and doing everything perfectly in terms of the right foods, the right sleep, the right supplements. Where does spirituality and the divinity of life?

• 10:11Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 10:11Lewis Howes?

  Come in?

• 10:12Peter Diamandis?

  That's funny.

• 10:13Lewis Howes?

  The future of your health and your lifespan?

• 10:15Peter Diamandis?

  So, you know, most people know me as a technologist in AI or biotech or space rockets where I spent my first years. But the last decade, I have been truly focused on longevity as one of the largest markets. I have a $600 million venture fund in that area. And I've written a few books. Um, started a number of companies. We'll talk about perhaps Fountain Life. A few years ago, I was onstage at the Vatican to bring it back to spirituality. And so it sounds like a joke, but I'm onstage in the Vatican with an alderman, a rabbi, a cardinal, myself.

• 10:58Peter Diamandis?

  And we're having, the, the title of the panel was "The Morality of Immortality."

• 11:05Lewis Howes?

  Oh.

• 11:05Peter Diamandis?

  Interesting, right?

• 11:06Lewis Howes?

  Very.

• 11:06Peter Diamandis?

  And I flipped it to "The Immorality of Mortality." And so that was our conversation. And the rabbi there gave this amazing historical overview of human lifespan. And he said, yes, we had, um, Methuselah and all of these people living to seven, eight, nine hundred years. And then something happened where humans sinned, were parably with God, and God said, "You shall have no more than 120 years." And this is in the Bible. Really? And what's amazing is, up until now, the longest-lived human is 122 years old. Wow. And we have people, typically these supercentenarians,

• 11:50Peter Diamandis?

  who are making it from 110 to 120. And so it's interesting that the Bible actually called out 120 years. I find that pretty extraordinary. Why do you think that is? Maybe that was their experience back then, maybe. Knowing a little about that, yeah, yeah. Who knows? I don't know.

• 12:07Peter Diamandis?

  But I remember saying, "Okay, listen, if we're promised by the Bible 120 years, I'm fine taking that 120 years." Give me that 120, yeah, yeah. And then we'll renegotiate after that. So, listen, spirituality, I'm gonna take it slightly different and talk about mindset, right? Because you love mindset, I love mindset. I love the work that you do. And when I listen to your show, it's around mindsets. And as it turns out, mindset, which is connected to spirituality, yes, is one of the most powerful forces in you living a healthy, long life. It truly is. And here's the numbers.

• 12:49Peter Diamandis?

  There was a study done and reported, actually, I've got it here, reported the National Academy of Sciences, right? The Journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, like, one of the most prestigious journals. And it said, "In a study of 69,744 women and 1,429 men," it's one of the only studies that had more women than men, "published in the National Academy of Sciences, it was found that optimistic people lived as much as 15% longer than pessimists." Isn't that interesting? I'd find that fascinating. And I do, I do think that is true. I think that is about our mindset, our belief of mind over, over matter.

• 13:33Peter Diamandis?

  And so, you know, people tell me, you're optimistic. Yeah, I got double benefit from being optimistic.

• 13:38Lewis Howes?

  Sure.

• 13:39Peter Diamandis?

  I love life. I love every minute of it.

• 13:41Lewis Howes?

  I'm trying to remember the, the researcher, I think it was Dr. Ellen Langer, I think, who did a study, hopefully I'm not making this, making this up on the person, but I think she did a study where she had people go back into the nostalgia of their life, like back into the 60s or the 50s. And they lived in a home with like the music from the 50s, the music from the 60s, the artwork from that time, like the food, all of it was like the clothes, they wore the clothes from that decade of their teen years.

• 14:11Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 14:12Lewis Howes?

  And they started to see themselves get healthier, start to heal certain things, have more energy, and almost reverse time by living back in time. So. And doing more positive, optimistic.

• 14:25Peter Diamandis?

  Useful. Let me, one of the things I opened the book with, that I want people to realize is a couple of things, if I could lay these down as cornerstones.

• 14:35Peter Diamandis?

  The first is, you're born with 3.2 billion letters from your mom and 3.2 billion letters from your dad. And that's your software you're running. You're running it at age zero, at age 20, at age 50, 80, hopefully at 100. And so if you're running the same software, why do you look different? Right? Why don't you have a six pack at 100 that you had when you were 18? And it turns out it's not the genes you have, right? We have some 20 to 22,000 genes inside of that genome. It's what genes are on, what genes are off. That is your epigenome. It's epi from the Greek word for above, and it's controlling which genes are on and off as you age.

• 15:20Peter Diamandis?

  And the control, those genes do two things. It says, okay, we're going to turn these genes on in your skin cell, these genes on in your neuron, these genes on in your hepatocyte, your liver cell. And so cell type is controlled. But also, as we grow older, these genes, some get turned on that shouldn't be on, some get turned off that shouldn't be off, and that is aging. And what's been proven in the last I say this is work done over the last five years is that we can reverse your epigenetic age.

• 15:57Lewis Howes?

  Your biological age.

• 15:59Peter Diamandis?

  Well, it's, it's, yeah, you can call it your biological age. Very specifically, I'm saying the epigenome, like your genes are, are the keys on a piano. Right? All those genes are there and when you're playing a song, you're playing certain genes. And as you get older, the song starts to blur and the wrong keys are being hit and such. And that's your epigenome. And can you reverse it back where the song being played is correct? And a number of things impact your epigenome. It is your mindset, definitively mind over body. It is your environment. It is very much exercise.

• 16:44Peter Diamandis?

  It's sugar. It's what you eat. It's sleep. And so when people talk about reversing their age, right? And this is something I've been focused on doing for myself.

• 16:57Peter Diamandis?

  There are a number of things that can reverse your age to a younger epigenetic age. And that's, those are the things I talk about in the book. It is exercise, sleep, diet, the supplements and meds you take, your mindset, your habits. You know, people, it sounds really expensive to take care of yourself. It's not economically expensive. There are some things that are expensive for sure, but you know, one thing I want everyone to take away from this conversation today is here are a number of things you can do effectively for free. That can make a big difference, but you're not going to do them unless you're motivated. Right? It's all about that motivation and the motivation here should be if I can keep myself

• 17:40Peter Diamandis?

  in reasonably good health for the next decade, there's this massive benefit that's going to be paid out. And so I don't want to be the last person to die before you reach longevity escape.

• 17:50Lewis Howes?

  Right. I mean, you had a lot of great people review this, this book. Dr. Mark Hyman was just on the show recently and I think he said, I can't remember the stats, but I believe it's over 50% at least of Americans are more obese than, less obesity, right? There's more obesity than not than ever before.

• 18:13Lewis Howes?

  And I'm curious, you talk about mindset, environment, exercise, sugar, what you eat and sleep, are kind of the key tenets within this book. But if someone doesn't have the mindset that they want to get out of suffering or pain, or they want to get out of obesity, or they want to get out of the chronic illness that they have, because it's just too hard for them to think otherwise, or it's too much inertia to switch.

• 18:40Peter Diamandis?

  They don't have the role models, they're not in the wrong environment.

• 18:43Lewis Howes?

  Everything. It seems like so many different things that you need to pay attention to and stop doing. When a lot of people just feel sick, tired, a lack of energy, exhausted from work, in relationships that aren't really serving them, and they just don't have all these put together. How do you get to the mindset first to say, "I've tried these things before, it didn't work. I tried to eat better at dinner, I tried to sleep better at dinner, I tried the medicine, and it's just getting bigger, I'm getting more chronic fatigue." How do I switch it?

• 19:14Peter Diamandis?

  There has to be a why, right?

• 19:17Lewis Howes?

  How does someone find that one?

• 19:18Peter Diamandis?

  So, so when I talk about this with my abundance community, my Fountain Life members, I'm saying, "Okay, listen, in your mind, there is a number. Each of us have a number of how long I'm going to live. Like it or not, you've got a number, right? And that number comes from someplace. It comes from, you know, your parents, your grandparents, the Bible, society, what you heard on CNN, or whatever. And you're tracking towards that number. I remember when I taught my nieces how to ride a bike. We were on a tennis court that didn't have a net, and there were two poles in the court, right?

• 20:00Peter Diamandis?

  And they kept on hitting the poles, and I'm like, "What's going on here?" It's like, "You have to tie a tennis cord."

• 20:06Lewis Howes?

  Go around it, yeah, yeah.

• 20:08Peter Diamandis?

  It's because that's where they were looking. That's where they were focusing. And so, if you've got a number that says, "My dad made it to eighty, eighty-five, I hope I can make it there." Or, "The oldest person in my family was seventy-five, so I hope I can make it there." You're gonna hit that number.

• 20:27Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 20:28Peter Diamandis?

  And so you need to let go of that in getting you number.

• 20:31Lewis Howes?

  This is interesting because I haven't heard it this way. And the way you're saying it right now, and I think this is really something that people need to fully pay attention to what you're saying because you're reframing, creating a number in your mind so that you can see how long it extended. Because if our father or grandfather died at a certain age, like you're saying, we're automatically or unconsciously saying, well, maybe I last a few years longer because I'm doing things a little differently. Maybe.

• 20:58Peter Diamandis?

  My medicines may be better.

• 20:59Lewis Howes?

  Right, exactly. But you're saying we need to think of a new number.

• 21:02Peter Diamandis?

  You do. So we have to look at.

• 21:04Lewis Howes?

  Well, what if it seems unrealistic? Oh, my grandfather, my dad was eighty something or eighty-five.

• 21:10Peter Diamandis?

  You know what? Let me provide context here. The average human lifespan for most of human existence, for Homo sapiens, is thirty.

• 21:20Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 21:21Peter Diamandis?

  Right? So you and I'd be dead a while ago.

• 21:23Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 21:24Peter Diamandis?

  So to frame this, and again, I talk about this, and I'm trying to provide the construct, mental construct, to change people's belief about what's possible for them, which is the number one thing to do. Because if you believe it's different, you're then going to take these next steps, which make these things different for you. So, uh, number one,

• 21:47Peter Diamandis?

  a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand years ago, before birth control, right, you were pregnant at age twelve or thirteen.

• 21:54Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 21:55Peter Diamandis?

  It just was the case. And we actually, puberty has moved later over these last few hundred thousand years. Number two, by the time you were twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, you were a grandparent.

• 22:05Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 22:06Peter Diamandis?

  Amazing. And before food was abundant, before we had McDonald's and Whole Foods, it was scarce. And the worst thing you could do if you wanted to perpetuate your species was stay alive and steal food from your grandchildren's mouths. So you would die.

• 22:24Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 22:24Peter Diamandis?

  Right? So this evolutionary context is important here. And if you look at the human body, we peak in functional biological age at around twenty-seven, and it's a slow decrease. What does that mean? It means our immune system begins to decrease in its power. We become immuno-exhausted. Our muscle mass comes down. We have sarcopenia, right? So last year, I went heads down to add 10 pounds of muscle mass. All right. And working out every day, making it. Now, my job is I got what I wanted. Now it's to maintain it. And I think about that a lot.

• 23:05Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 23:05Peter Diamandis?

  All right. And I measure it, and we can talk about that. And you're doing amazing. I mean, how often do you work out?

• 23:11Lewis Howes?

  Four or five days a week, depending. Yeah, but I'm also doing, you know, sauna for 20, 30 minutes, three, four times a week. I'm doing, you know, all the different things that I can do.

• 23:22Peter Diamandis?

  And you look amazing.

• 23:23Lewis Howes?

  Thank you.

• 23:23Peter Diamandis?

  And, and these are creating habits in your life. Okay, so first context here, evolutionarily, is it's downhill after, call it 30. Your hormones, your

• 23:35Lewis Howes?

  Metabolism.

• 23:36Peter Diamandis?

  Everything is dropping because there was never any reason to maintain it. You were dead.

• 23:43Peter Diamandis?

  Second thing, so understanding that is important, that you've got to say, I refuse to let that be the case, and I'm going to do everything I can to change it. But you need some motivational hooks going forward. What's that? First of all, you should realize that there are species of whales on Earth, the bowhead whale, that can live for 200 years.

• 24:09Lewis Howes?

  That's crazy.

• 24:10Peter Diamandis?

  It's amazing, right?

• 24:11Lewis Howes?

  How do they track that? I mean, I don't even know that they're 200 years old.

• 24:14Peter Diamandis?

  They have found, they've

• 24:16Lewis Howes?

  How do they know they're 200 years old?

• 24:18Peter Diamandis?

  They have found whales with harpoons in them and been able to carbon date.

• 24:23Lewis Howes?

  Come on.

• 24:24Peter Diamandis?

  Yes, that is fast. Isn't that amazing?

• 24:27Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 24:28Peter Diamandis?

  And then Greenland sharks can live to 500 years old and have babies at 200 years old.

• 24:35Lewis Howes?

  That's not

• 24:35Peter Diamandis?

  It is crazy.

• 24:36Lewis Howes?

  But we're humans, we're not whales.

• 24:38Peter Diamandis?

  We're not whales, we're not sharks. But the point I'm saying is that these large mammals, in case they can live that long. There's a proof case. The second thing to realize is there are people who live routinely in good neurocognitive and cardiovascular health and metabolic health till over 100. They're sharp, they're at work, they're capable, they're motivated.

• 25:01Lewis Howes?

  Pull up still, all that stuff.

• 25:02Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah. And Why can they and why can't others? There's a reason, it's not random, alright? And so, we're beginning to discover that. We're beginning to discover what's the underlying metabolic, genetic, all of those things. And we now have the tools to edit those things and change them. I think that's the important, if we understand why something exists, and then how to transform what you've been given to match that, we can begin to see an extension of health span.

• 25:33Lewis Howes?

  What was your mindset like when you were in your 40s or mid 40s? When most people hit a midlife crisis, where were you mentally, emotionally around life and death?

• 25:43Peter Diamandis?

  I, I never thought about, like, I said, listen, I went to medical school. I was at MIT as an undergrad studying molecular biology. And then I went to Harvard for medical school to make my parents happy.

• 25:57Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 25:58Peter Diamandis?

  I had promised them I would do this. But then my fourth year of medical school, I had two companies that I was running, a rocket company and a space university. And I, you know, I thought about longevity to some degree, but it was not my driver. And I was focused on space. And I was focused on opening the space frontier. And then I was focused on, through the X Prize and Singularity University, focused on solving grand challenges. And it was really the last decade that I'm like, oh my God, the biggest grand challenge is can we extend the healthy human lifespan, right? Then you, you know, the greatest wealth is your health.

• 26:39Peter Diamandis?

  I love the saying, the man or woman who has their health has a thousand dreams, the man or woman who does not has but one.

• 26:45Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 26:46Peter Diamandis?

  And it's so true. And so, I started saying, oh my God, this, I love impact. I love, you know, how can I change lives? How can I support and uplift? And helping people see

• 27:01Peter Diamandis?

  This future, see what is possible for them for me is my goal. And in this book.

• 27:07Lewis Howes?

  Did you ever fear of death though?

• 27:09Peter Diamandis?

  So I lost my fear of death. Doing DMT. Dimethyltryptophan, right, which is the active ingredients in ayahuasca. And I don't want to go down that journey too much.

• 27:22Lewis Howes?

  How old were you?

• 27:23Peter Diamandis?

  Uh, this was seven, eight years ago.

• 27:26Lewis Howes?

  Okay.

• 27:27Peter Diamandis?

  And but it was a.

• 27:30Peter Diamandis?

  It was, you know, it's a dissolution of the ego. And a a connection with the. With the a universe of love and and and God at its most epic proportion. And it was extremely powerful for me. And I lost that fear of death. My one of my motivations in longevity is my why. All right, and so coming back to this. It's like. To get people to to.

• 28:02Peter Diamandis?

  Put in the work. To live a longer, healthier life. You've got to have a reason for it. And. When I work with my abundance 360 community, my my fountain community.

• 28:19Peter Diamandis?

  I'm like, okay, let's discuss this.

• 28:22Peter Diamandis?

  If you had 10 healthy years, what would you do with it? If you had 20 healthy additional years, what would you do with it? When I ask people if you had 50 additional years, their mind breaks. Uh, it's like you can make up stuff for 10 or 20 years, but 50 years. Like. It becomes really hard for people to think that far out. And I find that fascinating. But if you've got a why. Um, and one of my whys was, you know, I've been a space cadet since I was born 61. Apollo lands on the moon 69, Star Trek comes out in 67, all those things influenced my life. And it's like. We're on the verge of humanity becoming a multiplanetary species. We're just talking about SpaceX launch, you know, going to the moon on a recurring basis.

• 29:07Peter Diamandis?

  We're going to go to Mars. It's amazing. It's like the kid in the candy store here is like, I want to see as much of that as I can. Right, one of my whys is to be here alive, to see humanity become a multiplanetary species, to be part of that. You know, I want to set up the first town on the moon. I want to mine asteroids. I mean, crazy shit, right? But at the end of the day, this is the future we have potential for. And you can dream big if you've got those extra decades.

• 29:33Lewis Howes?

  If you don't think that you had a positive mindset, you were pessimistic, and you didn't have a why for a greater future, how old do you think you'd be able to get to?

• 29:44Peter Diamandis?

  I don't know. I think I would sort of be tracking into my 80s.

• 29:48Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 29:49Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 29:50Lewis Howes?

  So you think you can extend 40 years based on positive mindset, a greater vision of the future?

• 29:55Peter Diamandis?

  Oh, and then, and then doing the work?

• 29:58Lewis Howes?

  Of course, of course. But without the mind, I feel like the mindset and the vision for why is, is actually everything first.

• 30:05Peter Diamandis?

  It is.

• 30:06Lewis Howes?

  And it makes it easier to do the work. Because if you did all the work and you were negative,

• 30:09Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 30:10Lewis Howes?

  it's going to counteract itself.

• 30:11Peter Diamandis?

  You have to believe this is possible, right? One of the reasons I wrote this longevity guidebook was to give people an understanding that what's possible. And then you need to have the mindset of like, so for me, opening the space frontier, I have two 13-year-old boys. I had my kids when I was 50. And that's one of the, I think, one of the great longevity therapeutics is having young kids. And I want to see them, you know, I want to meet their kids and their grandkids. And, and there's lots of other whys that I've created for myself. But it has to do with, I think this is the most extraordinary time ever to be alive, and I want to see as much of that as I can and live in that future.

• 30:54Peter Diamandis?

  So that why is important. You know, when it's 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. in the morning and it's comfy in bed and you're, you know, you're a little bit groggy and you had set yourself up to go to the gym. Do you work out in the morning?

• 31:10Lewis Howes?

  Yeah. It's hard to do at night.

• 31:11Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, it is.

• 31:14Peter Diamandis?

  But, you know, the why of getting out of bed?

• 31:20Peter Diamandis?

  To go and work out needs to be there.

• 31:22Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 31:23Peter Diamandis?

  Right. I mean, if you're 25 and you're dating, you know, your why might be procreation or landing that.

• 31:30Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 31:30Peter Diamandis?

  Landing that, that partner. But then when you're at night, you're at a restaurant, you've got this basket of bread in front of you.

• 31:43Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 31:43Peter Diamandis?

  And, and this glass of wine brought out before any of your food lands. And you start, you know, chomping down on that and spiking your blood sugar. Or at the end of dinner, when this dessert comes and lays in front of you and it's sitting there staring at you, saying no, you need a why. You need a why and you need habits that are going to serve you. And you know this, it's, it's like, so that is part of this.

• 32:11Lewis Howes?

  I think this is interesting. This is, I think, I've had a lot of these, you know, a lot of the people in the back of your book, all the doctors, researchers, scientists on, on biohacking and health and longevity. I've had a lot of individuals on the show and heard a lot of information. But I think what a lot of them are missing that you talk about so brilliantly is kind of a basic thing, which is mindset around like a positive future.

• 32:35Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 32:36Lewis Howes?

  Because most people just think, okay, what's the supplements? I know I need to sleep eight hours a night. And if I don't, you know, there's no coming back from sleep dead. You can't overcome it. And you're creating chronic illness and disease when you sleep less than six hours a night consistently. Uh, if you're eating sugar, you're going to be obese and it's inflammation, all these different things. And so I hear all that, right? I hear all that. How do you create the sleep sanctuary? You know, exercise, resistance training, no sugar environment, all these different things. You hear it all, which you have all this backed by science as well in the book. But I think what you talk about differently than most people is just a positive belief. And most people don't believe in themselves. They live in self doubt on accomplishing anything in their life.

• 33:19Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 33:19Lewis Howes?

  How do I get this job? How do I earn more money? How do I get out of a toxic relationship? How do I find a partner who's good for me?

• 33:26Peter Diamandis?

  Mm-hmm.

• 33:26Lewis Howes?

  They lack the self-worth.

• 33:28Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 33:28Lewis Howes?

  That it's possible to accomplish a lot of things, let alone a belief that they can live to 100 or 120. It just seems so hard to comprehend mentally and emotionally.

• 33:41Lewis Howes?

  And what I think you're talking about that's different than everyone else is first you need the belief that it's possible. You need to see other case studies or scenarios of people living a certain way.

• 33:53Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 33:53Lewis Howes?

  And you need to have a why that's attached to beliefs. And I think the third thing is we need to believe that we are worthy of living that long. Because most people don't believe they're worthy of existing now.

• 34:05Peter Diamandis?

  Wow.

• 34:06Lewis Howes?

  That's what I think is different about this. Because a lot of people lack self-worth. And if we lack this self-worth, we do things to cause harm.

• 34:14Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 34:14Lewis Howes?

  And the more harm compounds, the less life we live. Emotionally, spiritually, but also physically. And I think that's where a lot of this comes from. You have a, of course, you've got, you know, half a billion dollar funds every two years to move humanity forward. So you're just so expansive in your thinking, because you've got to deploy this money to build a greater future, and you've got to live into it in 60 years.

• 34:41Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 34:41Lewis Howes?

  Most people don't think that positively, that they're worthy and deserving of existing now. They're depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, living in chaos, let alone, how can I think beyond next week? Because I can't survive today.

• 34:56Peter Diamandis?

  So one of the things I talk about in the mindset chapter here, right? And there's a chapter on mindset and the hormones of happiness.

• 35:05Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 35:07Peter Diamandis?

  Is that our brains, we're all, we're all hearing about large language models and neural nets and AI all the time. Our brains are neural nets, right? We have 100 billion neurons, 100 trillion synaptic connections that shapes everything you do, see, hear. All of that is upstairs in your, in your, you know, three pound

• 35:30Lewis Howes?

  Brain.

• 35:30Peter Diamandis?

  mass of jelly.

• 35:35Peter Diamandis?

  And our minds and our mindset is being crafted and shaped every day. The way that that Google and OpenAI and Anthropic and XAI, how these companies shape their large language models is by showing them data, data, data, and they're collecting. So if you want to train a neural net how to recognize a cat, you show it photo of a cat after a cat after a cat. And it finally learns furry, pointy ears, whiskers, tail. But at the end of the day, if you show it a dog, it's never seen a dog before, it's gonna say it's a cat.

• 36:16Lewis Howes?

  Mm hmm.

• 36:16Peter Diamandis?

  Right? So the question is, how are we training our neural nets? And we train our neural nets, our mindset about what we believe is possible for us in the world, in our happiness, in our longevity, by virtue of who you hang out with, right? What you listen to. Congratulations on listening to this podcast. What you read, right? What's on your walls? All of these things shape how you think. And so if you're watching, you know, the crisis news network, what I call CNN, every night where you're getting every murderer, every crooked politician,

• 37:01Peter Diamandis?

  you know, into your living room, hour after hour after hour, and live in color. Because their their business model is to deliver your eyeballs to their advertisers. We pay 10 times more attention to negative news than positive news. Right? It's just, so we're being just inundated by negative news. And if you're old and you're hanging out with people who are dying and reading the obituaries, you're just, you're just compounding this. And you're like, I must not have much time left. My friends are dying.

• 37:33Lewis Howes?

  We're also creating an immune system. Your nervous system be heightened levels of anxiety.

• 37:37Peter Diamandis?

  You're fully sympathetic instead of parasympathetic.

• 37:39Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 37:40Peter Diamandis?

  So these things are critically important and things that we can change. I mean, you know, I talk about a few of these things like in, in the, in the chapter on diet, right? Few simple things that I want to share that people can implement right now. When you sit down at dinner tonight.

• 38:06Peter Diamandis?

  Take a few deep breaths.

• 38:09Peter Diamandis?

  Just in and out. That puts you instantly to what's called a parasympathetic. It's a rest and digest nervous system before you eat. Before you eat. It allows you to consume your nutrients a lot better. If you're eating in front of the television, watching evening news, you're screwed. You're in a fight or flight. You don't absorb the nutrients. They're empty calories. Next thing. Even the order in which you eat your foods matters. So if you have a plate of food. Eat your veggies first. Those veggies slow down your digestive tract.

• 38:50Peter Diamandis?

  They are absorbing the best nutrients first. Eat your protein next. And then if you have room at the end, you can eat your carbs. Right? So that order is critically important.

• 39:04Lewis Howes?

  Is that the sequence secret?

• 39:06Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, the sequence secret.

• 39:07Lewis Howes?

  And I think this is the interesting part that, you know, I want people to know this because there's kind of five parts of this.

• 39:13Peter Diamandis?

  Please, go ahead.

• 39:13Lewis Howes?

  And this is, you talk about how to build your GLP-1 naturally. And you also say that this secret could actually boost post-meal GLP-1 levels by 38%. And that's kind of the Ozempic drug is known for having GLP-1 levels.

• 39:29Peter Diamandis?

  So Ozempic drugs are like. I mean, they're every place. There are the get rich quick scheme or the get skinny quick scheme. And people need to know it's not that simple. Right? GLP-1 drugs, you lose, you do lose weight. You, you basically cut out your hunger. But a significant amount of the weight that you lose is muscle.

• 39:56Peter Diamandis?

  And if there's one thing that correlates with longevity, it's your muscle mass.

• 40:00Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 40:00Peter Diamandis?

  Right? So there's a very large study that the more muscle mass you have, the longer you're likely to live and for a number of reasons that occur there. And so what happens is if you're on a GLP-1 drug.

• 40:13Peter Diamandis?

  You're losing weight. You're losing fat and muscle. And then if you stop the drug, you'll put on 70% of the weight you lost. And most of that that you put on is fat and not muscle.

• 40:25Lewis Howes?

  Oh, man, so you're kind of a victim to the drug forever.

• 40:27Peter Diamandis?

  You're effectively addicted.

• 40:29Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 40:30Peter Diamandis?

  And so if you're going to take the drug, the single most important thing that you should be thinking about is how do I use this to create better habits? I mean, there's some people who are morbidly obese.

• 40:43Lewis Howes?

  They can't move well.

• 40:44Peter Diamandis?

  And, and yes, it's fantastic to help them. But the important thing is while you're in this situation, learn how to eat healthy. I think about everything I put into my mouth. In the same way that I'm, I'm so careful about what I watch. I mean, I don't watch the news, first of all. I, I, I don't read the papers, I don't watch the news. I have Google searches that, and an AI that I set up.

• 41:11Lewis Howes?

  Form you and.

• 41:12Peter Diamandis?

  That, that bring in the stuff that's relevant to me. I don't need some editor, like, working up my sympathetic system and telling me, I mean, pick up the newspaper tomorrow morning and count the number of negative stories and positive stories. I guarantee you, it's 10 to 1, at least. And the same thing on the TV news, I mean, it's all negative news. And you have to ask yourself the question, is this all that's going on in the world? Or is that what they're reporting to me? And there's so much amazing things going on, you just don't hear about them. Good news networks do not succeed. And so you have to actively shape what you allow into your, into your mind, in the same way that you shape what you let into your body, what you eat.

• 41:56Lewis Howes?

  And so there's, there's a way to increase this GLP-1 naturally.

• 42:00Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 42:00Lewis Howes?

  After you eat, right? And the first thing you talk about is the sequence secret, which is how you eat, fiber, protein, then carbs.

• 42:08Peter Diamandis?

  Yes.

• 42:08Lewis Howes?

  That sequence first.

• 42:09Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 42:10Lewis Howes?

  And I think it's interesting you say that, I think we've lost. The ability to sit down without the TV on. Most people have lost this ability to sit down without phone or TV consumption and actually take a deep breath. You know, growing up, my dad used to do a prayer before.

• 42:26Peter Diamandis?

  Yes, exactly.

• 42:26Lewis Howes?

  We'd sit there and hold hands.

• 42:27Peter Diamandis?

  Yes, exactly.

• 42:28Lewis Howes?

  And we'd actually connect with each other.

• 42:30Peter Diamandis?

  And do gratitude.

• 42:31Lewis Howes?

  And do gratitude. And then, now we eat. So even if you're rushing around, we sit and we take 30 seconds.

• 42:37Peter Diamandis?

  Calm your nervous system down.

• 42:39Lewis Howes?

  Then we eat, not just stuff it in really quick, which I've been, you know, tend to do a lot. So my fiancee Martha is always, we put the food down and she will energetically pray over the food and say, "Thank you so much," and put good energy into the food with her hands hovering over it. And it's just a moment, it may feel unnatural because you're like, "I'm hungry, I want to eat this now."

• 43:01Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 43:02Lewis Howes?

  That little habit change will add to the sequence, secret of helping you boost that metabolism faster, increase that GLP-1 faster with these little tweaks.

• 43:16Peter Diamandis?

  Chewing your food.

• 43:17Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 43:18Peter Diamandis?

  You know, I mean, listen, I'm guilty as everybody when I'm like in the middle of, it's like, it's like, "I gotta get this into my body as quickly as possible." But the answer is no. It's like when you do that, you're shortchanging the nutrients you're absorbing and you're doing yourself a massive disservice.

• 43:34Lewis Howes?

  Yep.

• 43:34Peter Diamandis?

  And so if you're gonna take the time to eat, and believe me, this is a, you have to get into a mantra mode where it's like, "I'm gonna eat now." One of the things, you know.

• 43:43Lewis Howes?

  Pause.

• 43:44Peter Diamandis?

  I'm gonna pause, I'm gonna take some deep breaths, I'm gonna drink a full glass of water, you know.

• 43:49Lewis Howes?

  First.

• 43:50Peter Diamandis?

  We all know this, right? Just to, just to calm down my, my hunger pangs. And I'm gonna enjoy every bite. And I'm gonna chew it, you know, a dozen times, 20 times, and I'm gonna savor the food. And all of these things are basically activating your natural equivalent of Ozempic in your body.

• 44:11Lewis Howes?

  Yes. You talk about yerba mate magic. How, how powerful is yerba mate over like a coffee or some other?

• 44:19Peter Diamandis?

  Well, I think I've got a chart there.

• 44:21Lewis Howes?

  Yep.

• 44:21Peter Diamandis?

  Which.

• 44:22Lewis Howes?

  It's page 37 for you.

• 44:24Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 44:26Lewis Howes?

  This is 200 milligrams of, I don't know how you say this, Yeramine?

• 44:30Peter Diamandis?

  Yes.

• 44:31Lewis Howes?

  Tested against a placebo. So this is with Yeramate versus a placebo.

• 44:37Peter Diamandis?

  Um, you know, the, the elements here are, each of them makes sense. Right? The last one here, move your body. So regular exercise. And we know this after, one of the healthiest things you can do, especially as a family with your loved ones, with your kids, with your spouse, is after an evening meal, go take a walk. All of these things make a fundamental difference. Um, you can actually see yourself lose kilograms just by the order which you eat your foods.

• 45:13Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 45:14Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 45:15Lewis Howes?

  So you eat the same amount of calories?

• 45:17Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, well, first of all, because you're slowing down your eating and because you're eating your fiber first and your protein next and not your carbs. So the challenge is when you eat empty carbs, white rice, right? For example, um, it's converted to glucose. It spikes, or bread at the beginning of your, of your meal. You know, you got this basket of bread, you're just munching and drinking wine. All of this turns into raising your blood glucose levels. That then spikes your insulin, which then makes you hungry again to eat more. So if you think that the restaurant is like just doing you this favor of bringing you out to wine.

• 45:54Lewis Howes?

  Free bread.

• 45:54Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, yeah, and bread. No, they're manipulating you. They're just making you hungry to order more food. Uh, you know, it's, I hate to say that, but that's what's going on.

• 46:07Lewis Howes?

  I mean, it's a smart business move, I guess, as a restaurant, how do I get more sales?

• 46:11Peter Diamandis?

  They give you a little, little heroin dose to get you addicted.

• 46:15Lewis Howes?

  Exactly. What is this lemon power? What does that mean?

• 46:18Peter Diamandis?

  So, um, there is a, an extract called, uh, Aromin. And you have these, what's called L-cells in your, in your gut that are producing the GLP-1. Uh, and it is, uh, it's basically stimulating your L-cells to, uh, to produce the same drug normally. And instead of, instead of giving yourself a, an injection of the stuff. So, I mean, listen, these are all, at the end of the day, these are all, uh, small.

• 46:54Peter Diamandis?

  Actions you can take.

• 46:56Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 46:56Peter Diamandis?

  But it's, how do you make these things into habits?

• 46:59Lewis Howes?

  That's what you mean. Because if you have to think about it all the time, it's gonna be exhausting.

• 47:03Peter Diamandis?

  If you're thinking about it all the time, and I have a whole, I added a chapter in this book, uh, the last chapter I wrote was on, is on routines. And routines are basically a mechanism that gets rid of your ability to negotiate with yourself.

• 47:21Peter Diamandis?

  I mean, I think of that.

• 47:21Lewis Howes?

  How do you do that, though?

• 47:23Peter Diamandis?

  By small steps.

• 47:24Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 47:25Peter Diamandis?

  Small steps. Don't try and do everything at once. I, I, I lay out in the book all the routines I've built. I lay out in the book routines from other individuals as well. And you can Google a lot of amazing, uh, health experts and look at their routines, but you know, give yourself the gift of deciding what you consider healthy for yourself and take it in small incremental steps. Um, and if you do that, after a while, you know, when I get out of bed, I set my alarm as a backup. I typically, you know, this morning I woke up at 5:15. I'm up between like 5:15 and 5:30.

• 48:06Peter Diamandis?

  Um, because I go to sleep by 9:30 the night before. It's like, for me, everything begins by me, you know, uh, turning down the lights at nine, going into a, getting ready for sleep, putting on my blue light blocking glasses, um, slowing things down. Uh, I, I listened to a audible book on tape, uh, as sort of like, it's like being read a bedtime story at night as an adult.

• 48:33Lewis Howes?

  It kind of puts you to sleep?

• 48:34Peter Diamandis?

  Well, yeah. It's like, I, I set a 15 minute timer and I go, some people like reading, some people like a hot bath, some people are, you know, focused on prayer, but there are certain triggers that you can have that get you from wide awake to slowing down and getting ready for sleep. We can talk about turning down room temperature and, and all a bunch of other things, but. When I'm up in the morning, that first hour and a half is mine. Right? And it's when I have maximum control of my day. Is that the same for you?

• 49:09Lewis Howes?

  Sure, yeah. Well, I just need to go to the gym right away.

• 49:12Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, so it's, so I'll do, I have different days that I'll do different things, but every day it's, you know, some red light meditation. I use something called a pulsetto, which is a vagal nerve stimulator,

• 49:29Peter Diamandis?

  to basically put me into parasympathetic. And all of these things have become a routine for me. I just bought a home sauna, which I'm excited to start using. I know, it's great. So, these are the routines that you do that feel natural. And if you don't have the routines, you find yourself in a position of renegotiating things with yourself. And a routine becomes a habit, which is the mechanism by which you don't negotiate with yourself. It's what I do, it's who I am.

• 50:02Lewis Howes?

  It becomes identity.

• 50:03Peter Diamandis?

  It becomes identity, yeah.

• 50:05Lewis Howes?

  What is the thing you still get to unlock within yourself that you're still holding on to? Is there anything that you're holding on to that's a negative identity or something that's still a crutch? That's the hardest thing for you to break through on?

• 50:21Lewis Howes?

  A routine, a habit, a non-negotiable?

• 50:25Peter Diamandis?

  That, a routine that I want to have?

• 50:29Lewis Howes?

  Or something that's still holding you back from like, ah, I still eat that, you know, ice cream once a week.

• 50:34Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, and by the way, if you're, if you're dictatorial on it and you don't give yourself the ability to forgive yourself for, for eating something that, you know, I just couldn't help.

• 50:49Peter Diamandis?

  That's not healthy either.

• 50:50Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, too rigidity is not, not.

• 50:52Peter Diamandis?

  I mean, it's like, give yourself credit for what you're able to do. And one of the other things, by the way, I'll come back to your question in a moment, is be careful at night. I mean, night is when things break down, right? You have a certain amount of willpower.

• 51:06Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 51:06Peter Diamandis?

  And you know this, right? You have your greatest willpower in the morning, and as you've had an exhausting day, I've battled, oh my God, I deserved that piece of cake. Damn it, I worked hard today. You know, I think I... Want more meditative time in my life. And I, and I need more stretching time in my life. So those two things are probably if I had to move the needle. I have to let go of something else. There is, you know, one thing that all humans have in common. All humans, everywhere, from Elon Musk to the poorest child. It's 24 hours a day, seven days in a week, 365 in a year. It's how we use our time. That is everything.

• 51:50Lewis Howes?

  And you've got to give something else up to add something to that time.

• 51:54Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 51:55Lewis Howes?

  So meditation and stretching.

• 51:58Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 51:59Lewis Howes?

  In page 50 of your book, you say there's a direct relationship between how well you sleep and how long you live.

• 52:05Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 52:06Lewis Howes?

  So it's not about the length of sleep. It's also the quality of sleep itself.

• 52:10Peter Diamandis?

  It is.

• 52:10Lewis Howes?

  Not being interrupted throughout the night.

• 52:12Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, so I use an Oura ring to gamify my sleep. I have an eight, eight sleep mattress.

• 52:21Lewis Howes?

  How helpful is that?

• 52:23Peter Diamandis?

  It is because I think one of the things that lets me sleep through the night is having a mattress that cools me down. And I can shape the temperature curve through the night. And it warms up in the morning.

• 52:39Lewis Howes?

  To wake you up.

• 52:40Peter Diamandis?

  To wake me up. I've just added a set of full spectrum lights that, that as the sun sets, the lights become, you see the sun setting and getting red. And then in the morning, the lights come on in a blue, you know. And so this is about controlling your cortisol levels and just getting you started for the day. And so these are things that you can do. I mean, if you remember, all of this got programmed 200,000 years ago. You know, we didn't have, we, we lived outside.

• 53:13Lewis Howes?

  We were in nature.

• 53:14Peter Diamandis?

  We were in nature, you know, we're grounded, feet on the ground. We woke up when the sun came up, went to sleep when the sun went down.

• 53:22Lewis Howes?

  We also only lived 30 years.

• 53:24Peter Diamandis?

  You also lived 30 years. But it was predation and it was infection.

• 53:27Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 53:28Peter Diamandis?

  And it was a whole slew of other things.

• 53:31Lewis Howes?

  How much does?

• 53:34Lewis Howes?

  Emotional trauma hold us back from living longer.

• 53:38Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah. I don't have an answer for you. I think you'd be better off answering that. I think.

• 53:46Lewis Howes?

  Kind of these stored traumatic wounds from our past, like if we're holding on to these traumatic events and reliving them.

• 53:54Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, I think, you know, you have to be loving life to want to live, right? So I love life. I truly love life. I love the world I'm living in, my family, the things I get to do. And that gives me this joy and this desire to live as long as I can. And I'm driven by making a difference, right? It's my, my massive transformative purpose is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create a hopeful, compelling and abundant future for humanity.

• 54:30Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 54:30Peter Diamandis?

  And so that's what I love doing. And, you know, in a similar, very similar way to what you do. It's how do I inspire people to go big, to, to, you know, create a life they love living?

• 54:46Peter Diamandis?

  And I think, I think trauma is very real and needs to be addressed. And there are ways to address it now, more than ever before.

• 54:56Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 54:58Peter Diamandis?

  But you have to feel worthy. You have to have a life. You know, a friend Dan Sullivan says, you need to see a life, a future that's bigger than your past.

• 55:10Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 55:11Peter Diamandis?

  Right? I mean, just think about that one second. If, if your future is bigger than your past, then I'm like, I have so much to live for.

• 55:17Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 55:18Peter Diamandis?

  If you think like, oh my God, my best days were behind me. It's a slow, you know, landing into the grave. You're dead or red.

• 55:25Lewis Howes?

  Might as well live it up right now and

• 55:27Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 55:28Lewis Howes?

  Eat everything and drink everything.

• 55:30Peter Diamandis?

  I'll get the tequila going.

• 55:31Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 55:31Peter Diamandis?

  Hit the parties.

• 55:32Lewis Howes?

  I heard you, exactly. I've heard you once say that you take 75 supplements and pills a day.

• 55:38Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 55:38Lewis Howes?

  It supports your health and optimization for longevity. We don't need to go into all of those, but if, if you were only allowed to take five supplements a day.

• 55:46Peter Diamandis?

  So.

• 55:47Lewis Howes?

  What would those be?

• 55:48Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah. So I'm not gonna answer that.

• 55:50Lewis Howes?

  Okay.

• 55:51Peter Diamandis?

  Let's start with that. This book began as a document. People would ask me like, what do you do? Always, right? So it's like, Peter, you look great. You're doing great, whatever. What do you do for your sleep? What do you do for your meds and your supplements? And this started as a 10-page document. It then became a 100-page longevity document. And it's become now, I think, 180 pages. I made it so that it was very readable and usable. And there's, the longest chapter in here is a chapter on meds and supplements. Not because I think that's the most important thing that you should be doing,

• 56:36Peter Diamandis?

  but because I wanted to disclose fully what I'm doing and why. So to back up one second, years ago, about 20 years ago or so, I think it was 20, there was a, a paper written called "The Hallmarks of Aging." And a group of scientists identified, okay, what are the nine things that are causing aging? Like stem cell exhaustion and epigenetic changes and whole telomere shortening. And so they wrote up these nine things. It's, it was updated now to, to a dozen things. And so these are what we believe cause aging.

• 57:19Peter Diamandis?

  And I went through with my physicians. I, I employ like

• 57:25Peter Diamandis?

  Twenty physicians at Fountain Life. Mm-hmm. I have one who's amazing, Mona Izat Villanov, who's my personal doctor, and there's a team behind that as part of my Fountain Life membership. But I went through and I checked my bloods every quarter, sometimes more frequently than that. And I build a protocol of what I take. And there's, I actually have five different pill packs. One when I wake up in the morning. Gosh. One in the A I. with my breakfast, one at lunch, one in dinner, and one before I go to sleep. I, listen, I guarantee, my mom says, Peter, you're insane. What, how do you know those things all don't interfere with each other and so forth?

• 58:10Peter Diamandis?

  I go, Mom, you got a good point. And this is what I'm taking. Sure, sure. So, but what I wrote up in the book was every one of those supplements or meds, what are they impacting on those hallmarks of aging? Hmm. What are the things that, and how are they reversing it? We're going to be sometime in the next three years, we're going to have the ability for an A I. to take in your entire genome, to take in all of your, your upload data, all of the imaging data of your body, all the blood biochemistry of your body. And then it will ask you, okay, here's your input. What do you want to do? You want more energy? You want to live longer? You want more muscle?

• 58:55Peter Diamandis?

  What's your goals? What are your top three goals? And then how many pills you want to take? Hmm. Right? I'm going to take five pills. I'm going to take seventy-five pills.

• 59:05Peter Diamandis?

  And then it will spit out an optimum supplement protocol. Based on you. Based on you. Is that happening right now? Is that out there? We're working on it at Fountain. Wow. And it's an area that I think is very, very doable. The data is being collected at large scale. Wow. But today, if you went to three different doctors and gave them your data and asked them what you should be taking, you'd get three completely different answers. Oh, man. Right? But there is an optimal set for you. The next decade, the biggest impact is going to be from access to A I. as your extraordinary health partner. Hmm. All right? I mean, it's.

• 59:46Peter Diamandis?

  I can't, I can't explain how exciting it is to have this capacity and capability coming our way. So in the book, I lay out the meds, the supplements and the why. And I think it's for everybody to evaluate for themselves.

• 1:00:01Lewis Howes?

  Sure.

• 1:00:04Peter Diamandis?

  With your physician, right? And decide where are you in your journey? If you're 25, it's very different, right? So you might be taking creatinine to focus on, on building muscle.

• 1:00:16Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 1:00:17Peter Diamandis?

  Right? If you're 85, you might be taking a particular supplement to reduce your cholesterol. Or your blood sugar. So I, I wrote it very much with a few provisos and like, okay, this is what I do. It's what I do. I test myself all the time. I've spoken to a dozen doctors. I've done the research and this is why I do it. You decide.

• 1:00:41Lewis Howes?

  What is the, what is something that people, if they have a little bit of extra money, they want to invest in their health? To understand their biomarkers better? What is the best tools out there to get an accurate understanding of your blood work? Or a DEXA scan? Like, what are the things that everyday people can do that don't have extreme amount of wealth to do that, the big tests?

• 1:01:03Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, so.

• 1:01:05Lewis Howes?

  What should they be doing once a year at minimum?

• 1:01:08Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, I think there are, one thing that I do is I'm wearing a.

• 1:01:14Lewis Howes?

  Glucose monitor?

• 1:01:15Peter Diamandis?

  Wearing continuous glucose monitor, yeah, right here.

• 1:01:17Lewis Howes?

  So you're always wearing that?

• 1:01:18Peter Diamandis?

  I'm always wearing it.

• 1:01:18Lewis Howes?

  I still haven't gotten one of those yet. I keep hearing about it. I keep want to try it.

• 1:01:21Peter Diamandis?

  It's not expensive, right? Uh, you can get it from Dexcom or.

• 1:01:29Peter Diamandis?

  And those are, those are different. Uh, InsideTracker and LifeForce are companies that will do a quarterly blood test, right? So LifeForce, for example, Tony and I were co-founders of that. It will run you, you know, a couple hundred bucks a year, up to 500 bucks a year, which is reasonably affordable. And it will give you your top 40 biomarkers, right? So at a minimum, give yourself a gift of that. Understand what's going on in your body. You know, we're all optimists of our health, around our health. Let me give something that, and there's a whole chapter in here called not dying from something stupid. And let me dive into that one second.

• 1:02:16Peter Diamandis?

  Our bodies are incredibly good at hiding disease. If I asked you right now, or folks watching, are you sure there's nothing going on inside your body to know about? 100%, are you positive? Most people truly have no idea, unless you've gone through what I call an upload. Right? You don't know what's going inside your body. And here's some stats. 70% of heart attacks have no precedent. There's no chest clutching, or no shortness of breath. Even if you got what was called a calcium score. Have you ever gotten a calcium score?

• 1:02:57Peter Diamandis?

  Okay, a calcium score has been for a few decades the most popular cardiovascular test. It's looking at a CT of your heart, looking for calcium. But calcified plaque in your coronary arteries. Coronary arteries are the arteries that feed the muscle of the heart. If you block a coronary artery, and it deprives the heart tissue from glucose and oxygen, the heart tissue dies, and you have a heart attack. And if enough of it dies, you're dead. Wow. Right? So when people talk about a coronary disease, or heart attacks, that's what we're talking about.

• 1:03:38Peter Diamandis?

  Talking about the blood vessels feeding the muscle of your heart being blocked. Now, if you get a calcium score, you know, they range from like 0 to over 1,000. If your plaque, your cholesterol plaques and so forth are calcified, it's like, imagine a pipe here, it's pumping the blood through. If it's calcified on the side of the arteries... And not blocking the pipe, it's stable, it's fine. Mm hmm. But what we've discovered is that there's a second kind of plaque. It's called soft plaque. And it doesn't show up in a calcium score.

• 1:04:20Peter Diamandis?

  And so you can have a calcium score of zero and have a heart attack that day. Because this soft plaque is in the wall of the artery. And what we see is it it can evolve, it can it can break out. And a glob of fat will block the coronary artery and starve your muscle. And so what is brand new over the last like three years is a new type of of technology, which is an AI overlay that can find the soft plaque in your heart, in your coronary arteries. And if it identifies soft plaque, your job is to either reduce it or calcify it. And it's the only thing that matters.

• 1:05:05Peter Diamandis?

  So there's a there's a company called Clearly that we use that you do your coronary CT. It takes 10 minutes and that data is uploaded. The this AI model finds a soft plaque, gives you a report. And that's all you should care about. If it's blocking your coronary, then you might need, um, you know, some type of emergent treatment. But if it's not, but you have a high soft plaque burden, your job is to reduce it or calcify it. So it can't like sneak up in the middle of the night. Right. I had a fraternity brother of mine who died from a heart attack in the middle of the night. Was due to come down to Fountain Life in a month.

• 1:05:48Peter Diamandis?

  And I'm like, it's like just slayed me, right? Uh, and What are the tests that people get when they go to Fountain Life? So is a let's break it up into into three parts. There's imaging. So when you come through Fountain Life, it's a full body MRI. Uh, like a prenevo type of scan or something? Type of stuff, uh, and and more so it's a full body, a brain, a brain vasculature. So in the full body, we're looking for any kind of tumors, cancers, any kind of anomaly, any kind of nodules in the in the lung, looking for aneurysms.

• 1:06:24Peter Diamandis?

  I'll mention this because it's public knowledge. A friend, Sam Nazarian, I don't know if you know Sam, he owns, started SLS Hotels and one of the major hoteliers and we have a partnership with Fountain and Sam. He's building out 25 resorts, six-star resorts and residential. He's going to be building Fountain Life into all of these around the world, which is amazing. So we're going to business, I say, "Sam, come on down and go through Fountain Life." I was taking them to go see Richard Bramston in Necker, and so we went through Orlando on the way down. He goes through it. Now, this guy is extremely successful and wealthy and has many doctors. He goes through, we find two brain aneurysms.

• 1:07:09Peter Diamandis?

  Wow. He's in surgery a week later. Holy cow. And he's cured now, but these were, this would have been super bad news. And, and it's like, that's insane that you have the best medical care and you didn't know this was going on inside your home. So the imaging finds cancers, tumors, and aneurysms. We do a clearly coronary CT to look for soft plaque. We do a low-dose lung CT. We do a DEXA scan, which you're familiar with, which is looking at your visceral fat, your muscle tissue, your body fat, your bone density.

• 1:07:54Peter Diamandis?

  We do retinal scan. Wow. We do skin scans, looking for any kind of moles or any kind of early cancer. We have a brand-new machine for women, which is a new type of breast scan, which is ultrasound. It does not, you know, compress the breast.

• 1:08:18Peter Diamandis?

  It works for people with breast implants or dense breasts. It's amazing ultrasound. It's a joy for women to use and it's something that makes it a lot easier for them. Wow. So, those are the imaging paradigms. Yeah, blood work in the. We have, we have been, all of the blood work, it's 150 blood biomarkers that are tested. Your full microbiome, right, looking at your gut. We do toxin testing, we do food allergy testing. There's a whole bunch more. Your full genome, not just SNPs, just not like 23andMe, which is a single nucleotide polymer.

• 1:09:02Peter Diamandis?

  It's all 3.2 billion letters and it's looking at it and understanding this. All the scanning, it takes about four and a half hours. All the scanning is to answer two primary questions. What's going on inside your body you know about right now? And what's likely to happen to you? So we can prevent it, we can optimize it, right? That's the goal. Yeah. In the what's going on right now, what's amazing are the numbers. We've had like five, 6,000 people come through. 2% have a cancer they don't know about, right?

• 1:09:42Peter Diamandis?

  It's like, hey, to tell you this and happy to tell you this, we found it, let's do something about it. 2.5% have an aneurysm. 14.4% have either neurocognitive, cardiovascular, metabolic disease, need to take care of right now. I was giving you the stats, 70% of a heart attack without any earlier. You don't feel a cancer until stage three or stage four. And your probabilities of a full remission, surviving it is much lower. It's like when you go into the hospital, not feeling well and having a pain. And the doctor says, I'm sorry to tell you this. Guess what? It didn't happen that morning. It's been going on for, you know, probably years. And you want to find it. When's the best time to find cancer? It's like at the very beginning.

• 1:10:27Peter Diamandis?

  Yes. What's even more concerning is that 70% of the cancers that kill us.

• 1:10:37Peter Diamandis?

  Are never tested for. So it's not the breast cancer, the prostate cancer, the colon cancer, right? We test for those. It's the glioblastoma, or it's pancreatic cancer. It's the things that are not routinely tested for, right? And so one other test that we do is a Grail Gallery test, which is from a blood sample. We're able to look at 40 or 50 different cancers. So when cancer is growing, those cells are growing rapidly in some rupture, and they release DNA into your bloodstream. So from what's called a liquid biopsy, we can determine if there is something that we should be looking for.

• 1:11:17Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:11:18Peter Diamandis?

  But what is amazing about the Fountain Life experience is it's multimodal, meaning it's not any one thing, right? It's all the imaging, it's the genetics, it's the blood biomarkers, it's a cognitive testing, all of these things that come together. So, I mean, full disclosure, it's not cheap, right?

• 1:11:37Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 1:11:37Peter Diamandis?

  It's $19,500. But it's not just the testing. You get a medical team with you for the year.

• 1:11:44Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:11:45Peter Diamandis?

  Right, so there's a functional medicine doctor, a longevity doctor, a nurse, a dietitian, a health coach that work with you through the year and then repeat tests quarterly. So if you want to go deep into this, we are releasing in the start of the new year,

• 1:12:05Peter Diamandis?

  a version for $6,500, which is going through employers. So if a company buys 10 or more for their employees, the price comes down significantly.

• 1:12:19Lewis Howes?

  That's cool.

• 1:12:20Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:20Lewis Howes?

  So people can go to what, fountainlife.com?

• 1:12:22Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, fountainlife.com for that. There's one other part, which is the part I'm most excited about. So one part is knowing what's going on in your body and not dying for something stupid like, holy, I wish I had found that earlier. The other part is this incredible world of longevity therapeutics. This is the stuff that will extend your lifespan, your health span. And so Fountain has become, created partnerships with companies that are in FDA trials right now with amazing technology. And so we're making it available to our members through these companies.

• 1:13:05Peter Diamandis?

  Like, these are the options you have that can extend, increase your muscle, reduce your immune age, reduce inflammation. And for me, that's the most important part, because I think, you know, knowing what's going on in your body is step one, and then optimizing your body.

• 1:13:23Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 1:13:24Peter Diamandis?

  Now, again, clearly, these, some of these things are expensive. Some of them are not. But the very first thing people need to do is, the biggest needle is going to be moved by your sleep, your diet, your exercise, your mindset. Those will buy you a decade or two.

• 1:13:48Lewis Howes?

  It's crazy.

• 1:13:49Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:50Lewis Howes?

  So for those who are serious about it, I think Fountain Life, make sure you guys check that out. You, you've offered me like a year or two, you gotta go through it. I'm gonna take you up on it at some point.

• 1:13:59Peter Diamandis?

  I still invite you to come.

• 1:14:00Lewis Howes?

  I'm gonna take you up on it at some point.

• 1:14:02Peter Diamandis?

  Bring, bring your fiancee.

• 1:14:04Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, we'll do it.

• 1:14:05Peter Diamandis?

  Our headquarters is in Orlando.

• 1:14:07Lewis Howes?

  Okay.

• 1:14:08Peter Diamandis?

  We have centers in New York, Orlando, Naples, and Dallas, Texas. We're opening up in 25 here in LA.

• 1:14:18Lewis Howes?

  Okay, remember, now's the time then.

• 1:14:20Peter Diamandis?

  Now's the time.

• 1:14:21Lewis Howes?

  Now's the time. What does it take, like a day to do all the testing?

• 1:14:23Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, under a day.

• 1:14:24Lewis Howes?

  Okay, cool.

• 1:14:25Peter Diamandis?

  You know, there's some work to do to get ready there.

• 1:14:27Lewis Howes?

  Sure, sure.

• 1:14:28Peter Diamandis?

  But then we're opening up in Houston as well, at the Ridge Carlton in Arizona. So we're adding formular centers now and then we have that roadmap of 25 centers.

• 1:14:38Lewis Howes?

  Okay.

• 1:14:38Peter Diamandis?

  With Sam, so.

• 1:14:40Lewis Howes?

  It's amazing. Well, for those that are interested in that, go to fountainlife.com. If you don't have that type of money yet, there's a lot of free things that you can do right now, like you talked about, all of them in the Longevity Guidebook. How to slow stop and reverse aging and not die from something stupid. So make sure you guys get a copy or two and give it to a friend. It's got a whole chapter on happiness hormones and how you can increase your happiness hormones. Because again, most of this is about mindset and being in a gratitude, happiness state. Because that's going to help you extend your life. You've got your list of supplements in here. You've got everything in here on how to optimize it.

• 1:15:17Peter Diamandis?

  And also some of the incredible therapeutics that are coming. And to be excited about what's coming, to feel empowered, right? So this book, you can go buy it Amazon. I think it's going to be 26, 27 bucks. I'm giving it away at cost for me, which is like 15 bucks. If you go to longevityguidebook.com, that will give you access to a bunch of additional things. And the book is shipped at a lower price. My goal is get this out as far and wide. Any profits I make through Amazon or Audible, I'm donating to the X Prize. Let me just mention the X Prize last year because I think it's really important.

• 1:16:00Peter Diamandis?

  So I started the X Prize Foundation 30 years ago, hard for you to believe.

• 1:16:03Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:16:04Peter Diamandis?

  We've launched 30 X Prizes in 30 years. So what's an X Prize? It is a large pot of money that we say, I don't care who you are, where you went to school, what you've ever done, if you can build and demonstrate this technology, you win the money and the world gets the benefits, right? So our first X Prize was for private spaceflight. Carry a person up to space, actually three people up, land, and within two weeks make the trip again.

• 1:16:31Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:16:32Peter Diamandis?

  This is way before SpaceX and Blue Origin and all of those companies. And that was successful, but we've launched X prizes on mapping the ocean floor, cleaning up oil spills on the ocean, pulling drinkable water out of the atmosphere. And, you know, I got Elon to fund a hundred million dollar carbon extraction prize, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere in the oceans. A year ago, we launched one of our largest prizes ever. It was a hundred and one million dollar prize for extending the healthy human lifespan. It's a hundred and one million because Chip Wilson, the founder of Little Lemon, who's one of our large sponsors, said, so how big is Elon's prize again? A hundred million?

• 1:17:14Lewis Howes?

  No, one more million, yeah, yeah.

• 1:17:16Peter Diamandis?

  I said, fine, if you fund it, we'll make it a hundred million. So we challenged teams to add twenty healthy years, right?

• 1:17:27Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:17:28Peter Diamandis?

  Actually, to reverse your functional age. So we asked teams with a therapy lasting less than a year, I want you to demonstrate the ability to make my cognition twenty years younger, the clarity of my thought, my span of memory, my muscle abilities, grow muscle twenty years younger, and my immune system twenty years younger. So we have four hundred and sixty teams, ho, in that team, the competition right now. This prize will be won by 2030. And again, and I talked about it a little bit in the book, but this is about, I want people to realize this stuff is coming. It's a rocket ship. There's no bigger business on the planet and no greater motivation for people.

• 1:18:12Peter Diamandis?

  So I want, I want folks to know this is coming. Be excited about it. Be hopeful. Share it with your parents, your grandparents.

• 1:18:20Lewis Howes?

  This is powerful. I've got one final question for you, but I want people to get the book, Longevity Guidebook. Make sure you guys check it out. Share this with a friend. Let's say you, you know, I believe you're going to make it to 120 if you believe it to be true.

• 1:18:33Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:33Lewis Howes?

  With everything that's coming. Let's say you are 120.

• 1:18:36Peter Diamandis?

  Yes.

• 1:18:37Lewis Howes?

  And maybe you get to extend it a few more years.

• 1:18:39Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:39Lewis Howes?

  Let's say you made 120. What's the thing you'll be most proud of?

• 1:18:45Lewis Howes?

  Looking back at 63 right now that you did for yourself to get to 120.

• 1:18:53Peter Diamandis?

  You know, the thing I'm most proud of is hopefully, and I believe my kids, right? I mean, that's always something. It's amazing. When I go to sleep at night and I think about what are the three moments that I'm most grateful for from the day? It always comes back to them, right? It's like, all the deals, nice, but it's all about my kids saying, "I love you," right? It's amazing in that regard.

• 1:19:17Peter Diamandis?

  I think this X Prize is a big deal. This X Prize is giving scientists, entrepreneurs, permission to dream bigger than ever before.

• 1:19:29Peter Diamandis?

  It's funded out of Saudi Arabia, out of evolution, and Chip Wilson, I'm a multimillion dollar donor to the prize as well, as are a number of amazing members of my abundance community.

• 1:19:43Peter Diamandis?

  I think my, the biggest thing ultimately goes back to where we began. I think it's helping people change their mindset.

• 1:19:54Peter Diamandis?

  Because that's the first step. It really, truly is. Everything follows from a belief that you can, and a belief that you should, and a belief that you deserve it. Because the tools are gonna be there, and it's not that hard. I mean, I lay them out in the book. You don't have to do everything. You pick a few things and increase, you know, next month add a few more things, and a few more things. But if you don't believe it, if you don't believe you're worthy, like you said,

• 1:20:23Peter Diamandis?

  you know, you don't go past go.

• 1:20:25Lewis Howes?

  Peter, thanks for being here, man.

• 1:20:27Peter Diamandis?

  A pleasure, buddy.

• 1:20:27Lewis Howes?

  Appreciate it.

• 1:20:28Peter Diamandis?

  Always a pleasure.

• 1:20:29Lewis Howes?

  Powerful. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links. And if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me personally, as well as ad-free listening, then make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel exclusively on Apple Podcasts. Share this with a friend. On social media and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts as well. Let me know what you enjoyed about this episode in that review. I really love hearing feedback from you and it helps us figure out how we can support and serve you moving forward. And I want to remind you, if no one has told you lately that you are loved, you are worthy and you matter.

• 1:21:14Lewis Howes?

  And now it's time to go out there and do something great.